The sha weapons are slightly different due to the expected gem that you'll be adding to it. The gem slot doesn't get any benefit from the increased item levels through valor upgrade. That's why the boost isn't as high as Starshatter, I would believe.

As far as the differences, the weapon damage is about a 300 wdps advantage for Starshatter, that translates to 2550 dps or so. There's a 500 str advantage for Sha weapon (roughly), but that's only a 1500 dps increase.

Starshatter should be your go-to unless you haven't got to Heroic Elegon yet. That's gonna be a guild to guild case, though.

The sha weapons are slightly different due to the expected gem that you'll be adding to it. The gem slot doesn't get any benefit from the increased item levels through valor upgrade. That's why the boost isn't as high as Starshatter, I would believe.

As far as the differences, the weapon damage is about a 300 wdps advantage for Starshatter, that translates to 2550 dps or so. There's a 500 str advantage for Sha weapon (roughly), but that's only a 1500 dps increase.

Starshatter should be your go-to unless you haven't got to Heroic Elegon yet. That's gonna be a guild to guild case, though.

A bit less if you are orc and can benefit from that +340 expertise going into haste for example. And at the end of 5.1. legendary quest you will get to add also a prismatic socket to the Sha Weapon, adding if you so choose an extra +160 strength to it.

A bit less if you are orc and can benefit from that +340 expertise going into haste for example. And at the end of 5.1. legendary quest you will get to add also a prismatic socket to the Sha Weapon, adding if you so choose an extra +160 strength to it.

Yes you are correct. I may have been wrong initially but having that extra socket for 160 strength or 320 for JC users will then officially make it better than heroic starshatter.

Don't think it wont. At least for me the better the gear I get the more Weapon DPS value goes up and strength remains the same or goes down a bit. HC Sharshatter will always be better but not by that much, as in if you are an orc and have the axe already and you can pass the sword for another dps'er that has the normal version it will benefit him more and the raid dps.

Depends on the gear. For me at this moment it's 8.41 / 2.76. And then like I stated before depends if you are orc or not and if you can get that expertise intro haste or not. So each one should do the math for themself, but the bottom line is that Starshatter hc will always be the best from the two weapons.

Yes you are correct. I may have been wrong initially but having that extra socket for 160 strength or 320 for JC users will then officially make it better than heroic starshatter.

The JC comment is completely irrelevant, you could put that gem in another item for no cost what so ever. What ItalliandK linked is totally correct, except the 820 Shinka will NEVER happen.

I'm not sure if his calculation includes the orc racial though. That could be enough to make up the difference for some/all of the things. Human racial would make starshatter indisputable best however.

The JC comment is completely irrelevant, you could put that gem in another item for no cost what so ever. What ItalliandK linked is totally correct, except the 820 Shinka will NEVER happen.

I'm not sure if his calculation includes the orc racial though. That could be enough to make up the difference for some/all of the things. Human racial would make starshatter indisputable best however.

Yeah I know it will never happen, that was just to show that even a Shin'ka with 820 more strength (legendary gem + epic JC gem) won't be better than a Starshatter HC due to its lower WDPS.

I simmed with T14N default profile, so a Tauren race, and I just reforged Starshatter with exp->hit (default profile has Shin'ka mastery->hit) so if you min/max it better you could gain a bit more dps.

Just to give you another info about how WDPS is important to us, I simmed my character with Starshatter LFR and with the Polearm N (again, rude reforged aswell) and Polearm N simmed 1k higher than Starshatter LFR and the polearm has about 1k less strength.

Ah so that is how it works. When you dont have an item that 99% of the posters say is better, you talk it down and come up whatever false reasons and "proofs" saying it is worse, and when you finally gets it you agree its better? Christ on a bike.....

Ah so that is how it works. When you dont have an item that 99% of the posters say is better, you talk it down and come up whatever false reasons and "proofs" saying it is worse, and when you finally gets it you agree its better? Christ on a bike.....

No that's not it at all. Everyone posted reasonable and accurate reasons and facts as to why I was wrong. I didn't think my guild would be killing Heroic Elagon anytime soon so I wanted to see if normal Shinka was better.